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October 21, 2026

Conclusion

The conclusion highlights the value of reuse and adaptation as approaches to rethinking existing resources and creating new possibilities. It emphasises the importance of understanding the potential of what already exists and exploring how it can be transformed, reinterpreted and applied in new contexts. Reuse and adaptation provide opportunities to connect past and present, preserve existing value and encourage creative and sustainable approaches to change.

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Marta Bustillo, Paola Corti, Claudia Hackl- Mayerhofer, Harrie van der Meer, Sylvia Moes

October 21, 2026

Chapter 2 Building the support ecosystem for Open Education

After reading this chapter, you will be able to: Identify the key support structures, funding, infrastructure, and expertise your library and wider institution require to develop and sustain Open Education. Analyse your own knowledge and skills gaps in Open Education and identify areas for further professional development. Select appropriate resources and professional development opportunities to strengthen your Open Education knowledge and skills. Assess the quality, accessibility, and inclusivity of OER, applying principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Identify and apply strategies to raise awareness of Open Education and promote its adoption among teaching staff and other relevant stakeholders within your institution.

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Marta Bustillo, Sylvia Moes

October 21, 2026

Chapter 4 The role of domain specific communities

After reading this chapter, you will be able to: Explain the value of domain-specific communities for advancing OER in higher education. Recognise different forms of collaboration that support the creation, sharing, reuse, and sustainable development of OER. Identify the roles that librarians and other support professionals can play in establishing and sustaining domain-specific communities. Apply practical steps for establishing, organising, and nurturing a domain-specific OER community. Analyse examples of domain-specific communities and identify factors that contribute to their success, sustainability, and long-term impact.

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Harrie van der Meer, Sylvia Moes

October 21, 2026

Chapter 1 Navigating the OER Policy Landscape

After reading this chapter, you will be able to: Explain the role of OER policies in supporting the adoption, implementation, and sustainability of Open Education. Distinguish between international, national, and institutional approaches to OER policy and explain how these different levels influence and reinforce each other. Identify key policy frameworks, recommendations, strategies, and resources that can support OER policy development and implementation. Analyse existing OER policies and policy resources in relation to your own institutional, national, or professional context. Identify opportunities to reuse and adapt existing policy frameworks, roadmaps, toolkits, and templates to support the development or strengthening of OER policy in your own context.

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Claudia Hackl- Mayerhofer

October 21, 2026

Introduction

This textbook is structured around three interconnected thematic areas that reflect key dimensions of Open Education in higher education contexts: OER Policy, Support and Resources, and Open Educational Practices (OEP). This textbook is designed to support different layers of reuse, recognising that readers will engage with its content in different ways depending on their needs and experience with Open Education. Level 1 – Some may simply read and explore the chapters to gain an understanding of OER policies and practices. Level 2 – Others may discover reusable sources by following the referenced toolkits, frameworks, case studies, and openly licensed materials included throughout the book. Level 3 – For practitioners ready to implement Open Education, many of these resources can be adapted and remixed to fit local institutional, disciplinary, or linguistic contexts. Level 4 – Finally, the textbook also provides editable templates, practical tools, and implementation examples that can be directly reused when developing policies, workshops, support services, or educational resources. Chapter 1: Navigating the OER Policy landscape Chapter 2: Support and resources for Open Education Chapter 3: Practical tips for trustworthy OER reuse, adaptation and co-creation Chapter 4: The role of domain specific communities UNESCO OER RECOMMENDATION AREAS The textbook is strongly informed by the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Educational Resources (2019), which provides an international framework for supporting the development and sustainability of Open Education. The chapters engage with the five UNESCO OER Recommendation action areas: Building capacity of stakeholders to create, access, re-use, adapt, and redistribute OER Developing supportive policy Encouraging inclusive and equitable quality OER Nurturing the creation of sustainability models for OER Facilitating international cooperation Throughout the textbook, these action areas are referenced to help situate practices, policies, and resources within broader international Open Education developments.

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Marta Bustillo, Paola Corti, Harrie van der Meer, Claudia Hackl- Mayerhofer, Sylvia Moes

October 21, 2026

The Art of Reuse and Adaptation

This open textbook is a practical guide to Open Educational Resources (OER) and Open Educational Practices (OEP) in higher education. Developed collaboratively by librarians, educators, researchers, and Open Education practitioners across the European Network of Open Education Librarians (ENOEL), it brings together policy analysis, practical guidance, and reusable tools into a single, adaptable resource. The book is built around three themes: policy, support, and practice. It looks at how policy shapes Open Education, what infrastructure and support make it sustainable, and how to build trust and create inclusive resources together with students and colleagues. Throughout, a Universal Design for Learning lens invites readers to critically reflect on the accessibility and inclusivity of open resources themselves. True to the values it explores, the textbook is designed for more than reading: it invites active reuse. Readers can explore its chapters, follow its curated toolkits and case studies, adapt its frameworks to local contexts, or reuse its editable templates directly. It’s aligned with UNESCO’s international recommendations on open education, openly licensed, free to adapt, and ready to grow through the contributions of others. EDITORS Mira Buist-Zhuk; Paola Corti; and Claudia Hackl-Mayerhofer REVIEWERS Michelle Breen; Marion Brunetti; Maura Flynn; David Stoellger; Lilianna Nalewajska; Celine Peignen; Emily Herron; and Peter Vedal Utnes

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Marta Bustillo, Paola Corti, Harrie van der Meer, Claudia Hackl- Mayerhofer, Sylvia Moes

October 21, 2026

Chapter 3 Practical tips for trustworthy OER reuse, adaptation and co-creation

After reading this chapter, you will be able to: Evaluate the quality and suitability of existing OER using relevant criteria, frameworks, and quality assurance approaches. Identify key copyright and licensing considerations when reusing, adapting, remixing, and sharing OER. Apply appropriate open licensing and attribution practices when creating, adapting, and sharing OER. Recognise the value of student–staff–library collaboration in the creation and development of OER. Identify approaches and conditions that can support successful collaborative and co-creative OER practices.

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Marta Bustillo, Claudia Hackl- Mayerhofer, Sylvia Moes

March 10, 2025

EPIFFANI Project Results

These are the combined results for the EPIFFANI Project by Prof. Nicolas Mangin. This project was funded buy SURF's Stimuleringsregeling open en online onderwijs. The aim of the project was to build and test a set of four open source applications for R/integration into the LMS, which allowed teachers to easily automate formative testing through IT solutions. With these applications, teachers can easily and quickly create automate the processing of making tests with personalized feedback for students. The results have three elements: A full project report, which provides context for the creation and creation process A link to Youtube video demonstration of the tools, made for the University of Groningen's education festival 2022 A link to the Github page of project lead Nicolas Mangin. On this page, all the packages can be downloaded, and documentation and instruction are available All tools are licensed under a GPL-3 license, but as this license is not available, it has been noted as CC BY-SA here.

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Nicolas Mangin

2025

Philosophical Tools for Climate Change

This textbook was created as an open educational resource in the course Philosophy beyond Academia at the University of Groningen in 2024. Except for this introduction, all of the chapters have been created by students of the MA Philosophy Programme of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. This book is the second book in a series of open educational resources applying philosophical tools and methods to a particular topic. In the past, philosophical tools and methods were applied to the topic of migration in the open educational resource, Migration: A Philosophical Toolkit (https://edusources.nl/materials/c06574c0-d831-4c52-82a9-a85b8d3d43e5/migration). About the book: In this book, the methodological approach to the topic of climate change focuses on the notion of a philosophical tool or method. A philosophical tool is a particular philosophical concept or distinction; a philosophical method is a more general way of thinking about a problem that gives us new insights about the problem, in our case, climate change. What this book attempts to do is apply a number of these tools and methods to the problem of climate change.

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Marc Pauly

January 1, 2025

START Handbook

This open online textbook is one of the results of the Erasmus+ project START (https://supportingstart.eu/), which aims to support teachers who help students transition from high school to higher education. The goal of the handbook is to provide those who teach first-year undergraduate students with strategies and resources to facilitate their students’ transition to higher education. The handbook contains ideas and concrete activities for academics to see how they can help first-year students engage, persist and succeed in higher education. Each chapter represents one of 17 identified challenges teachers experience when working with first-year undergraduate students. The handbook contributors, representing 6 partner institutions, looked into what has worked for them and other academics in relation to the challenges and identified a wide range of resources and pedagogical strategies that could be of help to teachers. Three types of content are proposed: in-depth content, easy-to-use resources and global pedagogical strategy. The handbook can be used primarily by academics who teach first-year students. However, it can also help those facilitating professional development at higher education institutions, since research-based ideas will be contextualised for different disciplines and expressed in language clear to those not trained as educators.

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Tracy Poelzer, Melina Solari Landa, Ro Aitken, Jelle Blijleven, Eileen Bowman, Julia Costa Lopez, Rachel Farrell, Marigel Garcia Lozano, Tatjana Hodnik, Ana Jiménez-Rivero, Taja Klemen, Marco Maicas, Alexandra Míguez-Souto, Jake Noel-Storr, Iciar Pablo-Lerchundi, Jakob Saje, Dirk van der Geest